Practice Areas
Insurance claims and insurance litigation for Arizona families and businesses, from a Scottsdale office that has done little else for 25 years.
Your insurance company is not on your side, whatever its advertising says.
You pay premiums for years on the promise that the company will be there on the worst day you have. Then the day comes, and a claim turns out to be a cost the company would rather manage down. Arizona law does require your insurer to look out for your interests and not put its own first. It does not guarantee that it will.
When it does not, the pattern is familiar. Weeks of silence after you file. An investigation that only looks for reasons to say no. An estimate nowhere near what repair or replacement actually costs. Repeated demands for documents and recorded statements. Or a flat denial the policy language does not support. Any of those can be bad faith, and bad faith can entitle you to money beyond the policy benefits themselves.
Five Kinds of Claim, One Opponent
What We Handle
Doug has handled insurance claims of nearly every kind for Arizona individuals and businesses for 25 years. These are the matters we take on most often.
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Insurance Bad Faith & Claim Disputes
Arizona law requires your insurer to treat you fairly and to weigh your interests as heavily as its own. When it delays, low-balls or denies a claim without a reasonable basis, that is bad faith, and you may be owed well beyond the policy benefits themselves.
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Homeowner's Insurance Claims
Monsoon and storm damage, a broken water line, fire, theft. Your policy should put the house back the way it was, replace what was ruined and pay for somewhere to stay while the work is done. We read the policy and the claim file so you are paid for the whole loss.
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Business Insurance Claims
A fire, a storm, a burglary or a water loss can stop a business in its tracks, and a stalled claim costs you every week it drags on. We handle property, business interruption, CGL and business management claims. Doug is a business owner himself.
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Life, Health & Disability Claims
A denied life, health or disability claim arrives at the worst possible moment, when the income or the medical care has already stopped. We take the insurer on so you can look after everything else.
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Personal Injury & Uninsured Motorist Claims
If you were hurt by someone else's negligence, or by a driver with no insurance or too little of it, the company across the table is not on your side. We pursue the medical care and the compensation you are owed.
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Medical Malpractice
When treatment falls below the standard of care and someone is harmed, the provider's malpractice insurer runs the defense. Taking on insurers is the whole job here.
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Talk to Us Before You Sign Anything
The first consultation is free and costs you nothing but the call. We meet clients throughout the Valley and all over Arizona, including evenings and weekends.